An exhibition from The Museum of Lost Technology (2020–2026) by Ebru Kurbak, Senior Research Fellow at
the Institute of Studies in Art and Art Education.
The Museum of
Lost Technology: A Preview presents artistic experiments from a long-term practice-based research project investigating
speculative “lost possibilities” at the intersections of textiles, science, and technology. What possibilities may have been
lost through the historical exclusion of “women’s work” from early sites of science and technology? What kinds of technologies
emerge when textile and string-based practices are approached as sites of invention?
Developed through conversations
with scientists across fields, the exhibition brings together experiments, prototypes, and instruments in a setting that blurs
boundaries between laboratory, craft workshop, and archive. The museum becomes a site not only of preservation, but of exploring
technological imaginaries interrupted by the historical segregation of knowledges.
Ebru Kurbak, in dialogue
with Lisa Kappel (Microbiology), Lukas Mairhofer (Experimental Physics), Franz Embacher (Mathematics), and the research assistants
Miriam Daxl, Albane Kerisit, Shannon McLachlen, Emilia Pesty, and Ula Reutina.
The Museum of Lost Technology
(2020–2026) is an Elise Richter PEEK Project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): 10.55776/V795. Selected works presented
in the exhibition were additionally supported by the LACMA Art + Technology Lab, the MIT Space Exploration Initiative, NIROX
Sculpture Park, the Austrian Cultural Forum Pretoria, Africa-UniNet, and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture,
the Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS).
Opening Hours- Mondays, 10:00–14:00
- Wednesdays,
14:00–18:00
